Amy & Erik,

Sorry for late response.

I would agree that IMI’s recent property boundary survey encompasses much more than is shown in GIS, and this should be corrected by the County based upon said recent boundary survey. I will request from Sauer Land Surveying the AutoCAD file so we can review the boundary per survey in GIS. I agree this will encroach into US Railroad Vest parcel geometry.

The attachment is a representation of the four tracts of real estate recently acquired from the County strictly based upon old base deeds. I believe the County can and should modify the tax parcel line-work to reflect this recently acquired boundary which could or should eliminate some of the remaining “DeKalb County Commissioners” tracts or “Unknown” tracts.

I did bring this up with Jim McCanna the other day and he said that the intent of the sale of the County Highway property to the City was to convey all of the County property in this area, and he would not have a problem cleaning this up, however that is done.

I believe getting a new boundary survey performed of all that real estate lying north and east of Eckhart Park and adjoining IMI is warranted. Then either quite title or adverse possession affidavit can be executed, or something. Would need to get some quotes for survey work. We may also want to include in new survey, the old railroad right of way the City owns from 18^th Street to Center Street just so we know exactly where the boundary lines are.

It would also be recommended to discuss our plans for a “trail” across Seiss and Souder properties to get their approval before we get too far along.

Daryl

Erik and Daryl –

We began assembling a Next Level Trails Grant application for the Mayor’s Cedar Creek – Outdoor Theater Leg Trail and ran into a few challenges related to land ownership and easements. We’d like to move forward with working out these ownership issues so we can proceed with this application in 2022.

Please see the attached maps to illustrate the location of these properties.

1. US Railroad Vest Corp Property (Parcel ID #18-06-32-401-001 and Parcel ID#18-06-32-329-001) – These parcels both have delinquent taxes for several years, and we have a survey from 2017 from an adjoining property owner (IMI) that shows they actually own a big piece of this first parcel.  We wonder if the Beacon/GIS data is incorrect.  What do we need to do to figure this out?  IMI’s survey and deeds are attached, FYI.  We requested the deeds for these two parcels from the County Recorder’s Office, but they were unable to locate them.  We also searched their files and were unable to locate them (even though we are not very experienced in searching their files).
2. Unknown ownership (Parcel ID #18-06-32-328-005; Parcel ID #18-06-32-328-010; Parcel ID #18-06-32-328-011; Parcel ID #18-06-32-328-007; and Parcel ID #18-06-32-328-014) – These actually show as “UNKNOWN” ownership in Beacon/GIS.  Daryl suggested Quiet Title?  Can we start that process or a process to obtain ownership of these parcels?
3. DeKalb County Commissioners (Parcel ID#18-06-32-328-012) – This shows up in the middle of all of the “Unknown Ownership” parcels, and the DeKalb County Recorder’s Office was not able to provide / find a deed for this property.  Everything around this parcel is either Unknown or owned by the City of Auburn.  Can we dig a little deeper on this one, too?

If we need to meet to discuss these, please let me know.  Otherwise, I believe Mayor Ley wants to take the necessary steps to figure out the ownership so we can move forward accordingly.

Thank you,